AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +5871%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

GeForce 9500 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

2816

Shading Units

32

176

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

500W

TDP

50W

900 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

G96

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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